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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) has jumped in with a letter to the acting director of the Interior Department’s inspector general’s office, claiming falsely that Monnett’s research was “the foundation” for the government’s decision in 2008 to list the bear as a threatened species because of global warming. In reality, Monnett’s paper is only a minor but evocative element of the large body of research pointing to the fossil-fueled extinction of the polar bear.